I'm no judge nor do I know the exact thoughts of the person who said the pool will be emptied, while I agree with you the number of applicants far outweighs canada's planned intakes, I believe it was said in the context that the pool will be emptied above 460~465 at the minimum.To those who believe that the pool is going to get empty soon. There's over 140,000 applicants and Canada's this year target is around 90,000 for EE. Do you really think it's gunna get empty even if IRCC achieve their targets. I don't think so. Unless I am missing out on something here
On a side note, it's true IELTS isn't suspended everywhere for prolonged time. I'm booking mine 6th-7th of April.